The former president of Fenatrado, the leading truck owner’s association, Blas Peralta, has appealed his 30-year sentence for the murder of the former rector of the state university UASD, Mateo Aquino Febrillet. In the appeal, his lawyers request a retrial. His lawyer Miguel Valerio appealed on grounds that the dispositions of the Penal Procedures Code had been erroneously applied. He seeks that the legal excuse of Peralta having been provoked to commit the murder is grounds for the sentence to be reduced to two years at the La Victoria jail.
The family of Aquino Febrillet also deposited an appeal where they request that an increase in the cash fine.
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Listin Diario
31 August 2017
